Areca nut is the 4th most commonly chewed psychotropic plant substance globally. There is no protocol evolved or an Index chalked out to calculate/grade addiction. Is anybody willing to draw protocols or help to evolve one for this program?
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Rooban Thavarajah There have been some published protocols or indexes for evaluation of physical, psychological or social dependence on nicotine and alcohol. We can adopt and transform some of those indexes to develop a protocol and then carry out a pilot study on areca nut addiction.
The questionnaire items of risk taking behaviour and self-rated physical fitness have shown some predictability on areca nut consumption. I would consider to develop a questionnaire-based protocol for areca nut dependence as the first step.
Boyen Huang Dear Professor, The message and call was done some 7 years ago. Since then a lot of work has gone inside this aspect and a lot of small scales questionnaires including DSM-V ones are used for at least 10 - 15 publications. I appreciate your advice and thankful for the same.
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